Colin Firth

There was a lot of hoopla surrounding Allentown native Dane DeHaan when he played Harry Osborn in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." The film, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray Aug. 19, picked up $786 million at the box office and is the sixth-highest grossing picture of the year. But after "Spidey" hit theaters, another DeHaan film was given a much different reception. "Devil's Knot" (2014, Image, R, $20), which the actor filmed before "Spider-Man 2," was barely in theaters before recently turning up on DVD and Blu-ray. "Devil's Knot" (2014, Image, R, $20) examines the true story of the unsolved 1993 murders of three young boys in...

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